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We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...
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Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
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“modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like …
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older siblings suggest that the policy affects the whole household, not just targeted family members. -- childcare ; labor … supply ; cognitive skills ; family policy ; Germany …
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parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value …
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We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by …
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
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We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India …-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference …-in-difference estimates show that married women's employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother …
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In Germany, formal child care coverage rates have increased markedly over the past few decades. The present paper is concerned with how mothers ́mental and physical health is affected by whether they place their child in formal day care or not. Furthermore, the effects of formal child care...
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This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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